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I agree. The goal of AI is to reduce payroll costs. It has nothing to do with IDEs or writing code or making "art". It's meant to allow the owning class to pay the working class less, nothing more. What it *can* do is irrelevant in the face of what it is for.
If workers (i.e. me) choose to use it without it being imposed on them, is that a morally bad thing in your worldview?
I was trying to use an obscure CLI tool the other day. Almost no documentation and one wrong argument and I would brick an expensive embedded device.
Somehow Google gave me the right arguments in its AI generated answer to my search, and it worked.
I first tried every forum post I could find, but nobody seemed to be doing exactly what I was attempting to do.
I think this is a clear and moral win for AI. I am not in a position to hire embedded development consultants for personal DIY projects.
You've pretty much described the "what it is for" for a large percentage of industrial inventions. Clearly, however, the world would be worse off without many of them.
would the world be worse off if facebook and google had never existed?
I doubt it
The fact that there exist things created in the pursuit of money that are of questionable benefit to society... does not, in ANY way, negate the fact that there are MANY things created via the same motivation that are a benefit to society.
would the world be worse off if instead of google it had been blooglie or hooli that succeeded?
i don't know